By the thousands
quilt project in the USA aims to represent the immigrant detention experience and encourage efforts towards more humane solutions. The 45,000 Quilt Project brings together the work of contributors who were invited to submit 36insquare quilts that included 1000 marks of some kind — to represent 1000 detained immigrants. The 45 panels highlight the fact that on any given day there are 45,000, documenting the quilts and including information about immigrant detention.
